On Mar 10, 2005, at 18:33, Stephen Walton wrote:
Can I put in a good word for Fortran? Not the language itself, but the available packages for it. I've always thought that one of the really good things about Scipy was the effort put into getting all those powerful, well tested, robust Fortran routines from Netlib inside Scipy. Without them, it seems to me that folks who just install the new scipy_base are going to re-invent a lot of wheels.
Is it really that hard to install g77 on non-Linux platforms?
It takes some careful reading of the instructions, which in turn requires a good command of the English language, including some peculiar technical terms, and either some experience in software installation or a high intimidation threshold. It also takes a significant amount of time and disk space. Konrad. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Konrad Hinsen Laboratoire Léon Brillouin, CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France Tel.: +33-1 69 08 79 25 Fax: +33-1 69 08 82 61 E-Mail: khinsen@cea.fr ---------------------------------------------------------------------